Karina Smirnoff Is Engaged!

Celebrity News November 7, 2010 AT 8:09AM
Karina Smirnoff Is Engaged! Credit: Denise Truscello/WireImage.com

Karina Smirnoff is set to waltz her way down the aisle!

The Dancing With the Stars pro, 32, is engaged to her baseball player boyfriend Brad Penny, UsMagazine.com has confirmed.

Smirnoff (in a custom-made Marc Bouwer dress) debuted her engagement ring from Penny Saturday at the fifth anniversary party for TAO in Las Vegas. Since Penny couldn't be at the event, he sent another surprise: An EVERLon Diamond Knot necklace Smirnoff discovered after opening a TAO fortune cookie.

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The dancer -- who most recently competed on DWTS with Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino -- says Penny asked for her hand in marriage in October after she and Sorrentino performed the foxtrot.

"I was in the middle of the show and had no clue what was cooking behind my back," Smirnoff tells Us, adding that the proposal happened at what she thought was a business meeting. "The dinner meeting was set up at a restaurant in Malibu. When [my manager and I] got there, it was completely empty. She excused herself to take a call and while I was sitting there alone, Brad came in.

"I had crazy hair and black lipstick on and was just concerned about looking like the Bride of Frankenstein," she continues. "Even after Brad got down to one knee and opened the box with the ring, it still didn't register."

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The bride-to-be -- who took her romance with Penny public shortly after splitting from DWTS' Maksim Chmerkovskiy in 2009 -- says she's certain her man is The One.

"I'm the happiest I've ever been and Brad is the sole reason for that," Smirnoff tells Us.

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  • November 08, 2010 - 4:03pm Yasmin Johnson

    Bless the man who wants to listen to that voice for the rest of his life. Nails on a chalk board.

  • November 08, 2010 - 12:40pm Kristin Douglas Wood

    Maybe 3rd times a charm...or she'll just ditch him in a week and be engaged again by Christmas.

  • November 08, 2010 - 9:35am Filomena Araujo

    She'll marry by Christmas, and be filing for divorce on New Years Eve.

  • November 07, 2010 - 7:23pm Brianna Secreti

    aaaaaaand that will last a whole 5 minutes..

  • November 07, 2010 - 2:13pm Elda Reyes

    He's so lucky b/c she is soo pretty!! love her!

  • November 07, 2010 - 10:23am Kay Scholze

    Isn't this her 3rd engagement in 2 years? Hopefully third time's a charm and her happiness is lasting.

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